By W. T. Tutte
ISBN-10: 0198502516
ISBN-13: 9780198502517
William Tutte, one of many founders of recent graph idea, presents a special and private creation to the sector. rather than a customary survey, the writer seems again on the parts which him such a lot, discussing why he pursued definite difficulties and the way he and his colleagues solved them. The book's broad references make it an invaluable place to begin for examine in addition to a huge rfile for an individual attracted to the historical past of graph concept. the writer starts with the issues he labored on as an undergraduate at Cambridge and is going directly to conceal matters resembling combinatorial difficulties in chess, algebra in graph thought, reconstruction of graphs, symmetry in graphs, and the chromatic eigenvalues. In each one case he mixes interesting historic and biographical details with attractive descriptions of significant effects.
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Suppose |ad − bc| = 1. Then (1, 0) and (0, 1) are in the span of (a, b) and (c, d). Indeed, d(a, b) − b(c, d) = (ad − bc, 0) = ±(1, 0) and a(c, d) − c(a, b) = ±(0, 1). Thus (a, b) and (c, d) generate Z2 . Conversely, suppose (a, b) and (c, d) generate Z2 . Then the matrix equation a c x=b b d has a unique solution x ∈ Z2 for all vectors b ∈ Z2 . For b = (0, 1)T , we have x= a c b d −1 0 1 = 1 ad − bc d −c −b a 0 1 = 1 ad − bc −c a ∈ Z2 . It follows that |ad − bc| divides |a| and |c|. Since (a, b) and (c, d) generate Z2 , there exists i, j ∈ Z such that i(a, b) + j(c, d) = (1, 0).
Example. 6, marching upwards from the vertex (xxxy, xxxyxxy) to the root (x, y). 26 CHAPTER 3. STANDARD FACTORIZATION some Christoffel words w ... 6: Paths in the Christoffel tree from (u, v) to the root (x, y) preserve the cutting points for standard factorizations. Note that we have found a characterization of those Christoffel morphisms that preserve Christoffel words. Namely, f : (x, y) → (w1 , w2 ) is such a morphism if and only if (w1 , w2 ) is a standard factorization of a Christoffel word.
1. u = Pal(v) for some v ∈ {x, y}∗ if and only if xuy is a Christoffel word. 2. u = Pal(v) for some v ∈ {x, y}∗ if and only if u has relatively prime periods p and q and |u| = p + q − 2. Proof of 1. 6, if u = Pal(v) then xuy is a Christoffel word. Conversely, let w = xuy be a Christoffel word and let (w1 , w2 ) be its standard factorization. 4, |w1 |x |w2 |x |w1 |y |w2 |y ∈ SL2 (Z) ∩ N2×2 38 CHAPTER 4. PALINDROMIZATION (writing N2×2 for the set of 2 × 2 matrices with nonnegative integer entries).
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